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Originally Posted by tompe
Martin Hoare did accept a price also this year. It was a first fandom award but I cannot remember who it was for.
Th Hugo ceremony this year was rather good (maybe not as good as the one in Glasgow). Will McCarthy was funny as toastmaster. Robert Silverberg and Connie Willis was as always funny. The japanese presentation was skipped. And they sped it up by letting the same person present two Hugos.
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The big problem with the Hugo Ceremonies is pacing. Enough awards have crept in (like the Japanese awards), that it can drag on unmercifully if not watched. I'd heard predictions of problems at Denvention*, and it's nice to know those particular fears were groundless.
(* Denver didn't expect to win the bid, was taken by surprise when they did, and had to do some plain and fancy scrambling when realization set in that they actually had to produce a Worldcon. They are not the first Worldcon Committee to have that "deer in the headlights" look after the votes are tallied and the winner announced... )
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Dennis